I would say the ingredients are:
- very rapid change on many fronts, so much that it is hard to keep up with on a psychic level
- a truly unusual (globally and historically speaking) individualised social structure, in which people have remarkably little dependence on one another, and a great deal of dependence on impersonal mostly state-based systems instead
- TV and now the internet disrupting absolutely everyone's ways of thinking, concepts, language in a way that is very disorientating, for a long and sustained period now
- being at the pinnacle of the global economic system, with incredible and quite previously unthinkable material wealth, which additionally in a minority of the countries that we are talking about is distributed very unevenly. a complication that this creates is that a huge number of people from around the world 'want in' to the benefits of this, which has all kinds of difficult consequences